The Artemis II mission will set several notable human spaceflight records. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will travel farther from Earth than any human in history. They won’t land. That distinction will fall to the next mission in line in NASA’s Artemis program.

A NASA astronaut on the ISS captured the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2, a mission that aims to bring four astronauts around the moon as soon as Feb. 6.

Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a fragile, government-run pipeline into a commercial service ...

Until today, Haven-1 had a public launch date of mid-2026. However, as Haot explained in our interview, that launch date is no longer tenable. Ars: You’re slipping the launch of Haven-1 from the middle of this year to the first quarter of 2027. Why?

Space shifts the position of the brain in the skull, causing orientation problems that could complicate plans to live on the Moon or Mars

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic radiation, but the implication is clear: The human body ...

The former ISS commander said the crew’s evacuation of the space station left him feeling more confident about human space exploration